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Castell-y-Fuwch
Pembrokeshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1925
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1925 (1925)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Historic county
- Pembrokeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Puncheston
- National Grid reference
- SN 0243 2912
- Latitude
- 51.92541
- Longitude
- -4.87482
- Altitude
- 251 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1974); Other (1981); Other (1986-1998); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- PE239(PEM)
- HER
- Dyfed 1291
- National record
- record SN 02 NW 15; monument 304471
- Wikidata
- Q31108102
Sources
References
- Crossley, D.W. 1963. List of Hill-Forts and other earthworks in Pembrokeshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 20, 196.
- Driver, T. 2007. Pembrokeshire. Historic landscapes from the air, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW, 126.
- Murphy, K., Ramsey, R., Poucher, P. and Page, M. 2007. A SURVEY OF DEFENDED ENCLOSURES IN PEMBROKSHIRE,
- 2006-07: GAZETTEER OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GRID SQUARES SN02, Cambria Archaeology Report No. 2007/01, Project Record No. 54269, Llandeilo: Cambria Archaeology.
- RCAMWM 1925. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, VII, County of Pembroke, London: HMSO, No. 133.